#! /usr/bin/perl -w
# generate_history.pl -- flatten release notes for use as HISTORY file
#
# Usage: generate_history.pl srcdir release.sgml >output.sgml
#
# The main point of this script is to strip out references, which
# generally point into the rest of the documentation and so can't be used
# in a standalone build of the release notes. To make sure this is done
# everywhere, we have to fold in the sub-files of the release notes.
#
# doc/src/sgml/generate_history.pl
use strict;
my $srcdir = shift;
die "$0: missing required argument: srcdir\n" if !defined($srcdir);
my $infile = shift;
die "$0: missing required argument: inputfile\n" if !defined($infile);
# Emit DOCTYPE header so that the output is a self-contained SGML document
print "\n";
process_file($infile);
exit 0;
sub process_file
{
my $filename = shift;
local *FILE; # need a local filehandle so we can recurse
my $f = $srcdir . '/' . $filename;
open(FILE, $f) || die "could not read $f: $!\n";
while ()
{
# Recursively expand sub-files of the release notes
if (m/^&(release-.*);$/)
{
process_file($1 . ".sgml");
next;
}
# Remove tags, which might span multiple lines
while (m/]*>//)
{
next;
}
# incomplete tag, so slurp another line
$_ .= ;
}
# Remove too
s|||g;
print;
}
close(FILE);
}